Richard Nixon actually said...

We must create an environment in the Government service in which excellence and ingenuity can flourish.

The Commission has informed me that reforms are essential, reforms that cannot be made within existing law.

Now, Therefore, I, Richard Nixon, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim February 4, 1971, as USO Day

The time has come, therefore, to take a critical look at the existing Federal system.